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...Romeo and Juliet. This week the film, the first feature-length movie of an entire ballet, which took a 1955 Cannes Film Festival grand prize, begins its first limited showings in the U.S., will be shown nationally next fall. It has its shortcomings as cinema, and it has a storybook languor that seems old-fashioned in contrast to the fast pace of U.S. ballet, but it makes excitingly good on its promise of a look at the great Ulanova in action...
...middle of New York's La Guardia Airport), there were other compensations. For example, the prince had plenty of titles (16) and a Croix de guerre for his wartime service in the French army. Still, something was lacking: the prince had no wife. Last week, in true storybook style, His Serene Highness Prince Rainier III of Monaco, 32, arrived in the U.S., looking for his princess...
...such productions as Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells puts on the kind of ballet no U.S. company can match. But Sadler's Wells has always tried manfully to prove that it could also excel in a style more up-to-date than storybook romanticism. Its success in this field has been indifferent...
Into this storybook East comes plucky Susan Hayward, thrusting her determined chin at consular aides, British policemen and inscrutable Chinese who do not seem sufficiently eager to drop everything and help search for her husband (Gene Barry) behind the Bamboo Curtain. As someone defensively points out, her husband-a scoop-minded magazine photographer-knew he was taking a considerable chance when he crossed the Red border without a visa and loaded down with cameras...
Pride worked, as always, calmly. One day an overexcited deck officer gave a command: "Full speed ahead!"-instead of "All engines ahead full." Pride did not bawl out the officer for using unnautical, storybook language. The admiral made his point by adopting the same tone. "Yes, and damn the torpedoes!" he cried melodramatically...